Brewery Soundproofing — Make Every Night Out a Great One

Your brewery is a more pleasant place to visit when guests can enjoy casual conversations and feel understood when communicating with your servers. You can implement various soundproofing and sound-absorbing techniques at your brewery to make it a more comfortable place to visit.

Types of Noise to Address in a Brewery

When combatting noise inside your brewery, airborne noise is the primary concern. Airborne noise is sound energy that moves through the air in many forms, from your patrons’ voices and your sound system’s music to audio from a television and mechanical noise from brewing equipment or air conditioners.

Airborne noise is troublesome because sound operates like a fluid — it fills its container and moves until it collides with an object with enough force to stop its flow. If the surface it hits is flat and hard, a soundwave will bounce back toward the source, resulting in an echo or reverberation.

Breweries have numerous features that allow airborne noise to fill the space and reverberate within it. Newer interior designs often feature hard, sleek and industrial surfaces, open floor plans and very few materials that are effective at absorbing sound. Sounds bounce off walls, ceilings and floors, making unwanted background noise and muffling voices. With very little to absorb background noise, the loud atmosphere can make it hard for customers to have an enjoyable experience.

Airborne noise can also travel between rooms. Sound from your brewing area can permeate thin walls or through cracks around a door. Similarly, noise outside your brewery can find its way into the building. A brewery soundproofing solution should encompass ways to reduce the effects of noise inside a space while confining unwanted sounds to the areas that create them.

Best Soundproofing Products to Treat a Loud Brewery

You can improve every guest’s experience by addressing airborne noise inside your brewery. These are some of the most effective products to use when attempting to soundproof a brewery:

• Acoustic panels: Acoustic panels hang on hard walls to absorb sound, preventing echoes and reverberation. There are numerous types of acoustic panels to choose from, including fabric-wrapped panels and decorative art acoustic panels.
• Soundproofing insulation: Soundproofing insulation slips between walls to absorb sound energy as it passes through. Using acoustic insulation also helps conserve energy.
• Sound partitions: An acoustic partition is a movable barrier that blocks airborne noise wherever you need it.
• Mass-loaded vinyl: Mass-loaded vinyl sheets reduce noise transfer by increasing surface density to keep sound from moving through them.
• Hanging baffles: A hanging baffle suspends from chains on the ceiling to absorb sound energy before and after it reaches the surface above.
• Door seals and sweeps: Door seals and weeps are products that close the space under and around doors, preventing excess noise from escaping.

Request an Acoustic Analysis

At the Soundproof Cow, we offer brewery sound solutions that promote a more pleasant customer experience. We encourage you to request a free acoustic analysis to receive tips on blocking and absorbing noise in your space.

Find out if Udderly Quiet® acoustic art panels are the right solution for you at soundproofcow.com, or speak to a member of the herd at 1-866-949-9269.